Wifi not working

[ambein]

Hi to clarify wlan0 works but it cannot connect to a network.

That's useful information as I hadn't seen any documentation on how to use the killswitches etc.

I don't think just using another mode of internet connection is an adequate solution to getting the built in wifi card/antenna to work properly. Are you suggesting the hardware may be defective?

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Ok so I reenabled the privacy switches for both F10 (what device is that?) and F11 (wifi?), rebooted, restarted wlan0 (ip link set wlan0 up), confirmed network connection profile etc, still no connection.

Wifi is sending out packets, network manager applet says "device not managed", and there is no internet connection.

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Solution:

In addition to the forgoing, I changed the line:

Code:

managed=false

to

Code:

manager=true

in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf

Since the restart command seems to not be installed, I then rebooted, and upon log-in wifi was both sending and receiving packets and I was able to make www connections via chromium.

It is likely wifi would have worked with just this modification and the creation of the wifi profiles in network manager. 

Others will have to confirm that the kill switch, creation of wp_supplicant.conf etc. were generally unnecessary.

Hope this helps!